wholly surrender | He must increase, but I must decrease. -John 3:30

The last couple of days I have been recording and editing video footage for an online software course. I have come to remember and appreciate one brutally true fact: Video is totally unforgiving. Once you tape it, it is out there…forever. Sure in some cases you can go back and edit section. Cut this, add that, tweak parts, etc…, but in the end even edits often seem forced or fake. So the struggle persists Fake edited version or Genuine Clumsy version.

It seems like my life is like that alot times as well, only there is no editing software for me to use. Sure often times I try to edit on the fly or track back to fix mistakes, but that is when things start to feel like fake edited version. Still one major difference is that in life unlike video there is forgiveness. We have to go to the Master Editor, and as soon as we do He says “Oh that crazy outtake…It is already trashed.” He doesn’t just edit it out, he dumps the whole thing. He doesn’t keep it for a laughable yet embarrassing outtake real at the end of our life. Nope, He just deletes the whole thing.

Sure the effects of mistake still show up later in our lives, but not the mistake itself. It is gone forever. That is true forgiveness, and not even the best video editing software can ever even come close to that power.

–Wholly Surrender!

Yesterday was Father’s Day and I hope you were able to spend time with your Father and/or children. Although Father’s Day is not exactly a religious or biblical holiday, I think it is very fitting that we celebrate holidays such as this on Sunday. As a Christian my Sundays have been set aside for a [...]

A friend of mine sent me a link to this video via facebook.
It is a good but hard word to hear, especially for us Christians.
–Wholly Surrender!

With the new digital era and all the social networking hype I figured I should post all the places you can find me online.
Obviously you have already found my blog (www.whollysurrender.com), but did you know you can get the content sent to you instead of having to frequent this page every time. To do that [...]

We all know about oil and water right? They don’t mix. 
That is exactly what I thought about when I read this blog post from Church Marketing Sucks, and then in turn this article from ABC News. 
Just for the record I am not against church, America, guns, government, or the constitution. However, I am overwhelmingly against [...]